PDW through VirtualBox

[SBS01]

Hi

I've been trying to run PDW through Virtualbox with an XP SP3 VM. While everything installs correctly and the slicer install seems to settle in correctly on the right COM port,  i cannot get the application to  get data from the the slicer. I confirmed that the COM port is working using another  device that is controlled via the COM port and it was flawless.

Has anyone had any success using a VM to run this program?


Thanks

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What kind of 'slicer' do you use?

[SBS01]

Yours  

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2-level, 4-level, RS-232, USB?

[SBS01]

Sorry, 4-Level

[SBS01]

Image of config: https://ibb.co/xMhvBDG

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For the 2 and 4-level interfaces, PDW needs direct hardware access to the serial port, since the port is used in a non-standard way. I.e. it doesn't observe the standard RS-232 protocol.

Using a virtual machine introduces a hardware abstraction layer, where direct access to the serial port hardware is not possible. So, it's not going to work.

[SBS01]

Thanks for this information, I guess I'll be building a little XP PC for this monitoring.